Getting pierced is generally a lifetime commitment, because our faces, ears and various body parts are often left with a hole that won't close up by the piercing process.
But ever since the 90s people have been getting pierced all over the place without giving it a second thought, making themselves look like a walking psychological profile.
Where a person chooses to get pierced says a lot about them, and while most people hope their piercings make them look rebellious, dangerous, or trendsetting they really just make them look like a person with a future full of regrets.
Some people don't like to see behind the scenes shots from their favorite movies and TV shows because they feel like it ruins their viewing experience, leaving them unable to watch without picking apart each scene.
But for the rest of us the opportunity to see a scene before and after the special effects were added simply makes us appreciate the skilled artists working on the show even more.
And when you realize how much hard work and planning goes in to creating these effects it makes you appreciate the fact that digital artistry makes it possible for a badass raccoon to help guard the galaxy.
Photoshop is a powerful tool, and learning to use the software can make you feel mighty powerful when you start doing stuff like seamlessly swapping heads or cutting and pasting people in and out of pics with impunity.
Because of this feeling of power many Photoshoppers wind up using their skills for evil, trolling and sometimes even ruining lives by manipulating images for the Dark Side.
James' Photoshop skills are in such high demand that people keep sending him pics to digitally alter despite the fact that his trollish sense of humor often leaves the subjects looking a little silly.
If you can sift through all the dumb unboxing videos, reaction videos, sketch videos and all the other crappy "comedic" content posted online you can find a ton of really funny videos on YouTube.
The beauty of YouTube is you don't have to have a huge budget, or even a budget at all, you just need some footage to edit (or re-edit) and the occasional voice over track to put viewers in the right head space.
Cracked's John Cheese has done a pretty darn good job of sifting through the crappy comedy to find the giggle inducing gems in his ongoing series of comedy video listicles.
This goat thinks they're all hilarious, but maybe you should watch 'em all and decide for yourself.
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Artist Darryll Jones has an ongoing photography project featuring his Stormtrooper action figure named Eric. Have You Seen Eric puts the Stormtrooper in all kinds of scenarios, on the dinner table, in costume, playing sports, acting out movie scenes, interacting with his Star Wars friends, but the best ones are of Eric enjoying the natural beauty of the outdoors.
A photo posted by Darryll Jones (@darrylljones) on Dec 9, 2015 at 4:02pm PST
At the website Have You Seen Eric, images are sorted into galleries that tell the stories of Eric’s Adventures, or you can browse through hundreds of images at Instagram. -via Buzzfeed
Boudoir photography has been dominated by female models for far too long, and as George Costanza and Kramer showed us on Seinfeld 'dudeoir' photography can be just as scintillating and alluring as standard boudoir shoots.
That's not to say the male body is as pleasant to look at as the female form, but sometimes allure and sex appeal are more a matter of how you work what you've got for the camera.
Halo fans will love this, but you don’t have to be at all familiar with the game to follow it. Master Chief has been hit by a plasma grenade, and it’s lodged in his helmet! He has four seconds to live.
What will he do with the time left? Is there any way out of his predicament? Find out in this live-action sequence from Corridor Digital. -via Geeks Are Sexy
It's easy to love sci-fi dystopian movies that bring us into all new terrible realities, without actually having to experience those realities for ourselves. If nothing else, they at least make us feel better about our own society. But many of those films set in terrible sci-fi worlds aren't actually filmed on sets, but in real-world locations.
That's why this Atlas Obscura article featuring 14 such film locations is so fascinating. It shows that some of the most haunting and out-of-this-world locations in our favorite dystopias are actually strange and wonderful places in our world.
Fans of Star Trek know that the original series was produced on a shoestring budget. That’s what gave us futuristic devices like the transporter and the tricorder, as a box with a few buttons could do anything in the future. The production crew even had to account for William Shatner’s hairpieces. It won’t surprise you to learn that various devices got re-purposed over and over as different devices over the course of the series. Take, for example, the one called the “CD rack.”
In TOS: "I, Mudd", "The Immunity Syndrome", "Obsession" and (modified) in "Elaan of Troyius" there is a strange strobing device that we call the "CD rack" because it looks like one (yes, we know there weren't CDs in the 1960's). The fourth appearance looks to have been modified with the orb thing from the Romulan cloaking device (later used in conjunction with Nomad to form the robot M-4 in "Requiem for Methuselah").
You might not realize such frugality extended to the later Star Trek series, too. Re-uses spotted by fans from the various Star Trek TV series are documented in a gallery at Ex Astris Scientia.
Many actors, artists and musicians talk about their own death in a flippant way, thinking it makes them seem deep, nihilistic or otherwise above giving a damn about the Grim Reaper's approach.
But acclaimed actor Oliver Reed wasn't being flip when he made a surprisingly accurate prediction about his own death during his episode of Without Walls- The Obituary Show back in 1993, he was merely telling his own future:
I died in a bar of a heart attack full of laughter. We were having a cabbage competition. I was very confident that for once I was going to win this vegetable competition. And somebody made a bet with me that was so lewd that I took it on and he shook my hand. And I laughed so much I was sick and died.
Oliver died in a bar in Valletta, Malta in 1999 while filming Gladiator, literally drinking himself to death in an Irish bar after being challenged to a drinking contest.
So while there wasn't any cabbage there was a competition, and laughter often accompanies drunkenness so that part was probably true too.
Omid Djalili, Reed's co-star on Gladiator, said Oliver "hadn't had a drink for months before filming started", so did Oliver make his fatal prediction come true, or was his fate so unavoidable that he saw it in the stars?
Female scientists have made some incredible contributions to our world, but to this day, they still get harassed by their male colleagues. While that's simply not cool, Emily Temple-Wood's reaction to the harassment is pretty awesome.
Rather than letting herself sit around and get frustrated, she has dedicated herself to uploading a new Wikipedia article about a female scientist every time she gets an inappropriate email, some form of physical contact or any other unwanted attention from a male co-worker. She's been adding entries since 2012 and has since added hundreds of articles on feminine scientists from all backgrounds. While it would be nice if Ms. Temple-Wood went through her career without sexist comments, at least something great is coming from it.
The music video for the song “Stormtrooper” tells the story of a Stormtrooper, stranded on a foreign planet, who searches for acceptance and finally finds a girl nerdy enough to appreciate him for what he is. It was a love that was meant to be.
Bara Heiða is an Icelandic singer and songwriter. In the lyrics to the song, the Stormtrooper goes off into battle and leaves his love behind, carrying a child he doesn’t know about. The implication is that they won’t see each other again, which is a much more melancholy story than what the video tells. -via Geeks Are Sexy
As seen on TV products have gone from novelty trash companies charged way too much for, such as the Flowbee or the Bed MadeEZ, to affordable items that (arguably) improve our lives, like Flex Seal or Pajama Jeans.
But even though the stuff sold on TV is far more legitimate these days there are still lots of products being made that don't belong anywhere but the trash can.
WatchMojo has gathered 10 items they've deemed The Worst As Seen On TV Products, take a gander and see if any of these turkeys are lurking around in your closet or garage!
The Wedge era of automotive design began when car designers in the mid-20th century started creating futuristic and sporty designs that drew inspiration from science fiction and pop culture.
According to Davey G. Johnson of Car and Driver the transition from the rounded and bulging curves of sports cars past to the sharp edged and totally spacy look of the future began in 1968 with the Alfa Romeo Carabo.
Concept designs ranged from the hard edged "wedge" to the "one-box" design, which offered more interior space, but no matter which configuration they used Wedge era designers all created cars that looked totally futuristic.
Whether you agree the Wedge look is still the cutting edge of cool or you see it as an outdated look remember this- without the Wedge era the DeLorean DMC-12 never would have been made, and the Back To The Future trilogy wouldn't have been the same without that far out time machine...
When George Lucas began working on Star Wars, he approached Ben Burtt, a former classmate at the University of Southern California, for help. Burtt, a professional sound designer, knew how sound effects could subtly shape a story and make a fantasy universe seem real.
Burtt developed the sounds of Star Wars that are now instantly recognizable, including that of the lightsaber, the TIE fighter engine, Darth Vader's breathing, blasters, and R2-D2's beeps and chirps. This task involved a surprising amount of work. For example, to prepare Chewbacca's voice, Burtt recorded several different animals at optimal times and then combined their intonations:
"Mostly bears, with a dash of walrus, dog, and lion thrown in," Burtt once said simply when asked how he found the sounds to create the character of Chewbacca's voice. But it took some doing: Burtt would travel to oceanariums on the off chance that their walruses would give him just the right sound. As he would later recall about visiting Long Beach's Marineland of the Pacific, which closed down in 1987, "Its pool had been drained for cleaning—the walrus was stranded at the bottom, moaning—and that was the sound!"
